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62 relations: Badong County, Baidicheng, Baiheliang, Baiheliang Underwater Museum, Canyon, Carp, China, China Internet Information Center, China National Tourism Administration, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Civil War, Chongqing, Commentary on the Water Classic, Emperor Daizong of Tang, Fengjie County, Guangxu Emperor, Guizhou, Hubei, Jiangjin District, Jiaqing Emperor, Jin dynasty (265–420), John L. Savage, Li Bai, Li Daoyuan, Limestone, Nanning, Nationalist government, Northern Wei, Orogeny, Qutang Gorge, Renminbi, Riverboat, Sandouping, Sandstone, Shale, Shibaozhai, Sichuan, Sichuan River, Song dynasty, Su Shi, Sun Yat-sen, Tang dynasty, Three Gorges Dam, Three Gorges Museum, Three Gorges Reservoir Region, Tongzhi Emperor, Tourist Attraction Rating Categories of China, Wu Gorge, Wu River (Yangtze tributary), Wushan County, Chongqing, ..., Xiling Gorge, Xinhua News Agency, Yangtze, Yanshanian, Yibin, Yichang, Yu the Great, Yuan Shansong, Yunyang County, Zhang Fei Temple, Zhong County, Zigui County. Expand index (12 more) »
Badong County
Badong County is a county located in the extreme west of Hubei province, People's Republic of China.
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Baidicheng
Baidicheng or Baidi City is an ancient temple complex on a hill on the northern shore of the Yangtze River in China, 8 km east of the present day Fengjie County seat in Chongqing municipality.
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Baiheliang
Baiheliang (Simplified: 白鹤梁, Traditional: 白鶴梁, Pinyin: Báihèliáng, lit. "White Crane Ridge") is a rock outcrop in Fuling District, Chongqing, People's Republic of China, that parallels the flow of the Yangtze River.
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Baiheliang Underwater Museum
The Baiheliang Underwater Museum or "White Crane Ridge Underwater Museum" is an underwater museum built around the White Crane Ridge of Fuling, in China.
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Canyon
A canyon (Spanish: cañón; archaic British English spelling: cañon) or gorge is a deep cleft between escarpments or cliffs resulting from weathering and the erosive activity of a river over geologic timescales.
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Carp
Carp are various species of oily freshwater fish from the family Cyprinidae, a very large group of fish native to Europe and Asia.
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China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.
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China Internet Information Center
China Internet Information Center (or 中国网/网上中国) is a web portal authorized by the People's Republic of China.
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China National Tourism Administration
The China National Tourism Administration (CNTA) is a dissolved Chinese government authority responsible for the development of tourism in the country.
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Chinese Academy of Sciences
The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), with historical origins in the Academia Sinica during the Republic of China era, is the national academy for the natural sciences of the People's Republic of China (PRC).
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Chinese Civil War
The Chinese Civil War was a war fought between the Kuomintang (KMT)-led government of the Republic of China and the Communist Party of China (CPC).
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Chongqing
Chongqing, formerly romanized as Chungking, is a major city in southwest China.
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Commentary on the Water Classic
The Commentary on the Water Classic is a work on the ancient geography of China, describing the traditional understanding of its waterways and ancient canals, compiled by Li Daoyuan during the Northern Wei Dynasty (386-534 AD).
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Emperor Daizong of Tang
Emperor Daizong of Tang (18 May 762 – 10 June 779), personal name Li Yu (name changed in 758 after being created crown prince), né Li Chu (李俶), was an emperor of the Chinese Tang Dynasty.
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Fengjie County
Fengjie County is a county of Chongqing Municipality, China.
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Guangxu Emperor
The Guangxu Emperor (14 August 187114 November 1908), personal name Zaitian (Manchu: dzai-tiyan), was the eleventh emperor of the Qing dynasty, and the ninth Qing emperor to rule over China.
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Guizhou
Guizhou, formerly romanized as Kweichow, is a province of the People's Republic of China located in the southwestern part of the country.
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Hubei
Hubei is a province of the People's Republic of China, located in the Central China region.
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Jiangjin District
Jiangjin, one of districts of Southwest Chongqing, China, lies along the upper reaches of Yangtze River, and has a history extending back more than 1500 years.
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Jiaqing Emperor
The Jiaqing Emperor (13 November 1760 – 2 September 1820), personal name Yongyan, was the seventh emperor of the Manchu-led Qing dynasty, and the fifth Qing emperor to rule over China, from 1796 to 1820.
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Jin dynasty (265–420)
The Jin dynasty or the Jin Empire (sometimes distinguished as the or) was a Chinese dynasty traditionally dated from 266 to 420.
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John L. Savage
John Lucian Savage (December 25, 1879 – December 28, 1967) was an American civil engineer.
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Li Bai
Li Bai (701–762), also known as Li Bo, Li Po and Li Taibai, was a Chinese poet acclaimed from his own day to the present as a genius and a romantic figure who took traditional poetic forms to new heights.
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Li Daoyuan
Li Daoyuan (466 or 472 in Zhuo County, Hebei – 527) was a Chinese geographer, writer, and politician during the Northern Wei Dynasty.
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Limestone
Limestone is a sedimentary rock, composed mainly of skeletal fragments of marine organisms such as coral, forams and molluscs.
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Nanning
Nanning (Zhuang: Namzningz) is the capital of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in southern China.
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Nationalist government
The Nationalist government, officially the National Government of the Republic of China, refers to the government of the Republic of China between 1 July 1925 to 20 May 1948, led by the Kuomintang (KMT, Chinese Nationalist Party).
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Northern Wei
The Northern Wei or the Northern Wei Empire, also known as the Tuoba Wei (拓跋魏), Later Wei (後魏), or Yuan Wei (元魏), was a dynasty founded by the Tuoba clan of the Xianbei, which ruled northern China from 386 to 534 (de jure until 535), during the period of the Southern and Northern Dynasties.
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Orogeny
An orogeny is an event that leads to a large structural deformation of the Earth's lithosphere (crust and uppermost mantle) due to the interaction between plate tectonics.
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Qutang Gorge
The Qutang Gorge is the shortest and most spectacular of China's Three Gorges.
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Renminbi
The renminbi (Ab.: RMB;; sign: 元; code: CNY) is the official currency of the People's Republic of China.
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Riverboat
A riverboat is a watercraft designed for inland navigation on lakes, rivers, and artificial waterways.
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Sandouping
Sandouping is a town in Yiling District of Yichang prefecture-level city in the Chinese province of Hubei.
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Sandstone
Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) mineral particles or rock fragments.
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Shale
Shale is a fine-grained, clastic sedimentary rock composed of mud that is a mix of flakes of clay minerals and tiny fragments (silt-sized particles) of other minerals, especially quartz and calcite.
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Shibaozhai
Shibaozhai is a hill along the bank of the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang) in Zhong County, Chongqing, China.
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Sichuan
Sichuan, formerly romanized as Szechuan or Szechwan, is a province in southwest China occupying most of the Sichuan Basin and the easternmost part of the Tibetan Plateau between the Jinsha River on the west, the Daba Mountains in the north, and the Yungui Plateau to the south.
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Sichuan River
The Sichuan River or Chuan Jiang (Sichuanese Pinyin: Cuan1jiang1; pinyin: Chuānjiāng), is the upper portion of Yangtze River from Yibin to Yichang.
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Song dynasty
The Song dynasty (960–1279) was an era of Chinese history that began in 960 and continued until 1279.
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Su Shi
Su Shi (8January103724August1101), also known as Su Dongpo, was a Chinese writer, poet, painter, calligrapher, pharmacologist, gastronome, and a statesman of the Song dynasty.
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Sun Yat-sen
Sun Yat-sen (12 November 1866 – 12 March 1925)Singtao daily.
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Tang dynasty
The Tang dynasty or the Tang Empire was an imperial dynasty of China preceded by the Sui dynasty and followed by the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.
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Three Gorges Dam
The Three Gorges Dam is a hydroelectric gravity dam that spans the Yangtze River by the town of Sandouping, in Yiling District, Yichang, Hubei province, China.
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Three Gorges Museum
The Three Gorges Museum (重庆中国三峡博物馆) is a museum in the Yuzhong District of Chongqing, China, about the Three Gorges and Chongqing.
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Three Gorges Reservoir Region
Three Gorges Reservoir Region, including 25 county-level divisions of Chongqing municipality and Hubei province, is the region directly or indirectly involved in the submersion of the water storage of the reservoir region of the Three Gorges Dam.
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Tongzhi Emperor
The Tongzhi Emperor (27 April 185612 January 1875), born Zaichun of the Aisin Gioro clan, was the tenth emperor of the Manchu-led Qing dynasty, and the eighth Qing emperor to rule over China.
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Tourist Attraction Rating Categories of China
Tourist Attraction Rating Categories of China is a rating system used by the Chinese authorities to determine the quality of the attraction relative to its peers in terms of safety, cleanliness, sanitation and transportation.
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Wu Gorge
Wu Gorge, sometimes called Great Gorge, is the second gorge of the Three Gorges system on the Yangtze River, People's Republic of China.
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Wu River (Yangtze tributary)
The Wu River is the largest southern tributary of the Yangtze River.
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Wushan County, Chongqing
Wushan County is a county located in Chongqing municipality.
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Xiling Gorge
Xiling Gorge is a canyon (gorge) on the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang) in Hubei province, China.
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Xinhua News Agency
Xinhua News Agency (English pronunciation: J. C. Wells: Longman Pronunciation Dictionary, 3rd ed., for both British and American English) or New China News Agency is the official state-run press agency of the People's Republic of China.
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Yangtze
The Yangtze, which is 6,380 km (3,964 miles) long, is the longest river in Asia and the third-longest in the world.
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Yanshanian
The Yanshanian movement were first recognized by Weng WH (1927,1929) in the Yansan area of China (116°-119.5°N, 40°-42°E).
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Yibin
Yibin (Sichuanese Pinyin: nyi2bin1; Sichuanese pronunciation) is a prefecture-level city in the southeastern part of Sichuan province, People's Republic of China, located at the junction of the Min and Yangtze Rivers.
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Yichang
Yichang (old postal name 'Ichang') is a prefecture-level city located in western Hubei province, China.
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Yu the Great
Yu the Great (c. 2200 – 2100 BC) was a legendary ruler in ancient China famed for his introduction of flood control, inaugurating dynastic rule in China by establishing the Xia Dynasty, and for his upright moral character.
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Yuan Shansong
Yuan Shansong, sometimes called Yuan Song, was an official of the Jin Dynasty.
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Yunyang County
Yunyang County is a county of Chongqing Municipality in China.
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Zhang Fei Temple
The Zhang Fei Temple was constructed to honor General Zhang Fei, a Chinese military leader from the Three Kingdoms Period.
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Zhong County
Zhong County or Zhongxian, formerly named Linjiang (临江) is a county of Chongqing Municipality in China.
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Zigui County
Zigui County is a county of western Hubei province, People's Republic of China.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Gorges
